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But even if just one human being is helped, he can then help so
many others. And when ‘we’ scold anyone, it is with the
intention to liberate. Otherwise, who would scold in this way?
Who would ruin the mind? This scolding is for the salvation
(kalyan) of that person. A father scolds his son to exercise his
fatherhood. More than the welfare of the son, he has the intense
beggary to be the father. If a husband is scolding his wife, he
does it for his beggary of maintaining his superiority as a
husband (husband-hood; dhanipanu). But when the Gnani
Purush scolds, He does it for the salvation of that person.
The whole world is roasting like potatoes in the fire.
People of this country as well as in foreign countries; everyone
is roasting in the worldly fire. When I told someone that people
are roasting like sweet potatoes, he told me, ‘Dada, not only are
they roasting but they are now on fire! Whatever moisture there
was in the potatoes has gone and now they are on fire!’ Such
is the current predicament of everyone in the world. What must
be the goal of ‘our’ satsang? It is to bring salvation for the world
– jagat kalyan. This bhavna does not go to waste.
What ‘We’ are saying is destroy all miseries. ‘We’ cannot
bear to see these miseries and suffering. Still ‘we’ do not
become emotional about it. At the same time ‘we’ remain that
much vitarag too. Despite this, ‘we’ cannot bear to see people
suffering. This is because ‘we’ know ‘our’ limits of tolerance
(sahanshakti). ‘We’ know from ‘our’ own experiences and
how ‘we’ dealt with pain and suffering, so ‘we’ know what
these people are going through. That verily is the expression of
‘our’ compassion (karunyata).
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